NEW YORK — Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake killed more 200,000 people, destroyed the national economy, and left more than a million homeless. For Haiti’s 10,000, mostly foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), figuring out how best to help in such circumstances is a daunting task. U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti and former President Bill Clinton has a [...]
NEW YORK — A Port-au-Prince school collapsed on a sunny day in Nov. 2008, leaving 80 children dead. The school, perched precariously on a hillside, had been built without a permit and with watered down concrete, its students crammed into overcrowded classrooms to increase tuition profits. “Where was the state?” asked William O’Neill, a lawyer [...]
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